Supporting of profitable activities in the target communities is one of
the major program direction of the Community Development Centre.

The program aims to popularize the idea of social plants for supporting
generation of profitable activities in the target communities. Besides, program
promotes creation of different social workshops and supports their development:

Supporting of profitable activities is based on the experience
accumulated while working in the village
of Nukriani (2007-2010),
where on the basis of free craft courses carried out in the framework of
Caucasian House’s regional program there were established a successful social
plant ,,Nukriani Workshops’’.

Workshops of national handicrafts were established in 2007 by the
Caucasian House and since 2009 were transferred to local community organization
– Nukriani for management.

The workshops became one of the best example, in terms of community
mobilization. Along with economic effect, the workshops added a substantial
human resource to the
community organisation in the
form of employed
women and became as source of unity. Women who are involved in the
activities of social workshops, more frequently are expressing their readiness
to work for solving community’s needs. Social plants became source of small
but, independent income for local women.

Caucasian House trough financial support of Bread for the World (Brot
fuer die Welt, Germany) established social plants
of enamel and jewellery in the village Napareuli, in 2010.

Since 2007 more 150 people in Nukriani and Napareuli mastered in the
different trades.

Dynamic of financial turnover in Nurkiani workshop looks in this way:

# Type 2007 2008 2009 2010 Total

1. Felt 2330 5128 4468 8754 20680

2. qvilti and puppets 2571 1846 2740 3439 10596

3. Knitted production - 230 205 100 535

4. Enamel - - 230 235 465

Sum total 4091 7204 7643 12528 32276

Since 2011 Community Development Centre plans to cooperate with Nurkiani
and Napareuli workshops more actively, in terms of their sustainable
development.

As far as, we consider the idea of social workshops as successful one,
in terms of community activization, Community Development Centre will use this
experience in other places, in case of broadening target communities.

Contact information

20, Galaktioni st., 0105 Tbilisi Georgia

Tel.: (+995 32) 299 83 22

Fax: (+995 32) 299 72 61

E-mail: satemocdc@gmail.com

Created with support of Diakonisches Werk der EKD, Bread for the World, Germany